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POUND MSS.

The Pound mss., 1919-1924, consist primarily of letters to Ezra Loomis Pound,
1885-1972, poet, from various literary associates and friends. Some of the correspondence concerns the legal troubles of James Joyce and his difficulties with the publication of his novel Ulysses.

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic and one of the leaders of the early modernist movement. Born in Idaho, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and went on to teach briefly at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana before traveling overseas. Living in London from 1908-1920, Pound became not only an accomplished poet but also a mentor to writers such as Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce. Pound was ultimately responsible for the 1918 serialization of Joyce's censored, controversial Ulysses.

The collection is organized into two series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings.

Three writings by Ezra Pound complete the collection: His translation of Paul
Morand's Ouvert la nuit; a translation of Tendres stocks, preface de Marcel
Proust, also by Morand; and "Translator's Postscript," published in Pound's
translation of Rémy de Gourmont's The Natural Philosophy of Love (Lilly PQ2266
.P5713, pp. 169-180).

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